Arabs Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/arabs/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 01 Jan 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Arabs Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/arabs/ 32 32 Two dozen dead in latest Darfur violence https://jjcornish.com/2020/01/two-dozen-dead-in-latest-darfur-violence/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/01/two-dozen-dead-in-latest-darfur-violence/ Two dozen people have died and hundreds displaced in the latest flare up of violence in  Darfur. Top Sudanese official have arrived to assess the situation in West Darfur where hundreds more troops have been deployed.  Things have been relatively calm in Darfur for the past decade. The United Nations called the western region of […]

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]]> Two dozen people have died and hundreds displaced in the latest flare up of violence in  Darfur.

Top Sudanese official have arrived to assess the situation in West Darfur where hundreds more troops have been deployed. 

Things have been relatively calm in Darfur for the past decade.

The United Nations called the western region of Sudan the world’s worst humanitarian crisis after fighting broke out there in 2013. 

The death toll exceeded 300 000 and more than 2,5 million were driven from their homes

The latest fighting between Arabs and Africans is centred on a  camp for internally displaced persons near the West Darfur capital of El Geneina. 

Ten villages have been torched and hundreds of people have fled into neighboring chad,

A UN AU peacekeepers camp in South Darfur has been raided.

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